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Sink or Swim

Tucked away in a studio in East Village, a group of guys who
started as a production group grew into something more. While living together
in Alphabet City, they wrote a song that was more rock than what they normally
write. That song was called “Swim”, and that band became Late Night Episode.

Guitarist Eric Sherman and vocalist Daniel Lonner had been
writing songs together since high school, while bassist Giovanni
Stockton-Rossini and drummer Brett Daniel attended the same college. They were
all living together when “Swim” was written, and it was their manager at the
time who persuaded them to continue making more songs like that one.

“We didn’t know if we were going to do it or if we were
going to give it to someone else, but [their former manager] said we should
really continue making songs like this,” Lonner said.

The band name comes from a song called “Hold Me Down” by
Motion City Soundtrack. Sherman was a fan of the song, especially the lyrics: “But save for a few of those late night
episodes, missed opportunities, and "I Don't Cares ", there's not a
lot that I feel obliged to share or talk about.”

“It’s mainly about high school nostalgia: going out late at
night, meeting up with girls, sneaking out, that whole vibe,” Lonner said.

After their first single release, the reaction to “Swim” was
bigger than anything they had written or produced before. It became the reason why they continued
creating music for themselves rather than others. Since then, the band has
spent the majority of their time creating new music in the studio, from their
home state of New York to Los Angeles, California.

Their second single, “Lost in Cali”, was released as a demo
after one of their LA studio sessions. Despite it not having that full band
sound, it was a blend of everything they wanted their music to sound like.

“It was the vision that we were going for, between the
acoustic and the rock but still this songwriting heavy rock music that’s pretty
pop in essence,” Lonner said.

Late Night Episode currently has four songs to their name,
but this is just the beginning of their journey. With the West Coast vibes and
the East Coast sound, their dedication to studio time and hundreds of songs in
the works, there is much more to come in the new year.